Sugar Maples Center for Creative Arts

Beginner – Advanced

Handbuilding exquisite pottery forms is as ancient as the Craft is. This workshop is perfect for students who want to take handbuilding and creating dynamic surface decoration to a new level. Come study with this rising star of ceramics who will lead you through wonderful construction techniques that celebrate minimalist form thereby providing perfect planes for bold surface decoration using digital and analog approaches to pattern-making. Explore the power of line, negative space, contrast, and tension and their relationship to the forms you make. Analog and digital pattern design will be introduced, as well as embossing as an under-overlying detail. It’s complex and that’s exactly where we want to be. There will be demonstrations, discussions, hands-on work in our beautiful studio, firing, and heaps of individual attention. You can apply this to wherever and whatever temperature you want to fire.

Yael Braha is an artist of North African descent who received her BA in Graphic Design and MFA in Cinema. She has been an artist-in-residence at Arrowmont, Watershed, Haystack, Starworks, and in Shigaraki, Japan. Yael’s work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in the United States and Japan and is in permanent collections in the United States. In 2021, Braha received the coveted Multicultural Fellowship Award from the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts.

Course Fee: $500 + $90 Lab Fee + $40 Non-Refundable Registration Fee